Most books on American homelessness ask the reader to feel more. They document the human cost with precision and moral force, and they are right to do so. Some identify what the current system costs and why its metrics are inadequate. A smaller number prescribe changes, though almost always within the architecture of the existing machine rather than replacing it. None of them begins with the solution. None of them contains a falsifiable prediction with a defined measurement threshold. None of them traces the failure to its biological root, through the neuroscience of sleep deprivation and the anthropology of social scale, and then specifies the precise engineering correction those findings require.

AN ENGINEERING FAILURE operates as a capital reallocation argument derived from implementation science, written in the language of the electorate that funds the failure, addressed to the only audience with the authority to end it. The money is already being spent. The infrastructure already exists. The peer-reviewed specification is already published. The only missing variable is a voting public that understands what its city is purchasing and demands something different.

AN ENGINEERING FAILURE: Why Every Billion Dollars America Spends on Homelessness Makes It Worse, by Charles J. DiBella, presents the full structural analysis for a general reading public: why the system currently funded mathematically guarantees its own failure, why the infrastructure to resolve the crisis already exists and is currently vacant and depreciating, and what the voting public can do to redirect the money already flowing toward the machine that works.

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Keywords: Health, Public Investment, pipeline engineering, population taxonomy, ontological security, Dunbar Pod, CARE Court, Assertive Community Treatment, Housing First, Los Angeles Metropolitan Stabilization, Measure Alpha, homelessness stabilization, adaptive reuse, Material Dignity Infrastructure